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Category Archives: Celebrations
Friday Favorites: June 14
Happy Flag Day! This week’s favorites have largely come from our Summer Bucket List Challenge. So far we have completed 15 items – and most of them were even fun. We had a streak of poor sportsmanship during a game. It was the Hunger Games board game, so maybe it’s hard to be a good sport when your playing a game about bumping off the competition.
- We attempted to attend the MCC Planetarium Night, but we arrived to late to get tickets. No matter, we watched a show about Pluto (poor demoted planet), looked at Saturn through a telescope and shot film canister rockets.
- We had our family book club for Deadweather and Sunrise.
- We tried frying an egg on the sidewalk, but it was too cold. (There’s something you don’t hear about an Arizona summer day very often!) We’ll have to try again when it hits 115.
- We made Father’s Day cards.
- Our ice cream social was a delicious success! There’s even some ice cream left over to make milkshakes; a list item for another day.
- Not a summer bucket list item, but we had another meeting planning the ANWA Writer’s Conference. It’s going to be so cool!
Were your Friday Favorites also you Summer Bucket List items? Share your favorites so I can use them for my family too!
Friday Favorites: June 7
It’s Friday; the sun is shining; it’s a good day. If I’m completely honest, the sun is more than shining here in Arizona. It’s already hit the oppressively hot stage here. While the excessive heat isn’t my favorite, I had plenty of other favorites this week. Spending time with my kiddos was my hands-down favorite.
- The kids and I had some Minecraft fun. We took virtual and made it reality by building towers to destroy with Nerf guns. It reminded me of our Angry Birds party. We even had a cupcake challenge to create something from the game. I totally winged it, but somehow my creation still connected to the game.
- Started planning our ice cream social. I’ve always wanted to hostess something in addition to kids parties and now I can!
- Wing night at Native New Yorker. I tried 6 or more flavors of their hot wings. Last week, I’d never even thought about other flavors. My favorite is a toss up between the garlic Parmesan and the honey hot.
- My ANWA critique group met again. This time we had a special guest; one of my kiddos joined us and even shared a poem and gave feedback on one of the other stories.
- We made some serious progress on our Summer Bucket List! We visited a library, Half Price Books, and a yogurt shop. The kids took an art class and we made ice chalk (perfect for the heat). A week into our summer, we’ve completed six things!
- Is it vain that one of my favorites is having 21 likes for my Summer Bucket List challenge article?
- Had my new favorite chicken recipe (again) – Sweet and Sour Chicken.
- I cooked up a great family book club plan (minus the cooking) for Deadweather and Sunrise. Now we just need to find time to actually hold it. Hopefully that will happen tomorrow!
See, I told you I have a lot of favorites this week! Don’t let me hog them all, tell me what your favorites are this week.
Posted in Books, Celebrations, cooking, family, Writing
Tagged ANWA, Cupcake challenge, family book club, Favorites, Hot wings, Ice cream social, Minecraft, Summer bucket list
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Friday Favorites: May 31
I’m not exactly sure where May went, but I’m happy to share my favorites from the week before moving on to June! We had a good week, full of lots of good things.
- We had a blast a Flipside. Next time will be even better if we remember to wear closed toe shoes.
(Sandals are not allowed on the Crash Pods, in case you were wondering.)
- After we emptied our play cards at Flipside, we headed to the mall and found some killer deals at Payless Shoes.
- We finished off the evening by redeeming a ColdStone gift card from 2011. We’re quick like that!
- The WordPress 10 year anniversary celebration! I’m kind of nerdy like that – and I want to learn more to make my blog better for you.
- A fitness themed Pack Meeting. I was in charge of a relay race with spoons and tennis balls. I also got to show off my mad juggling skills.
- I found some great continuing education classes through the local library. The $120 Quick Books class I was looking at through the local college was free! And there were tons to choose from.
- One of my kiddos initiated a cleaning session!
- This week I was blessed to participate in a soldier’s homecoming. They always make me cry. I’m so grateful for their sacrifice and that of their families. Some hadn’t seen each other for almost a year. I’m so glad they are home safely.
- We filled our summer bucket list and even completed our first activity.
What are the highlights from your week?
Posted in Celebrations, Cub Scouts, Education, family
Tagged Favorites, Flipside, Free classes, Kids, Pack Meeting, shopping, soldiers home safe, summer, Summer bucket list, WordPress
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Slices of March
I survived tax season 2013! I know it’s pretty sad to be summing up March in the middle of April, but better late than never. Here’s the numbers behind how my month went.
.8 – Pounds lost. It’s not much, but it’s better than last month!
1 – Article written. I took a month off from the Homemaking Cottage and still only managed my Paper Bag Kite article for Arizona Mama. I am on pace to double that this month.
3.14 – Day we spent at the Science Center. Yep, we are that kind of nerdy.
4 – Saturday weigh ins with my friends. It’s amazing how some girl time makes standing on the scale a lot more fun, even on the bad weeks.
5 – Books read, and I’m still four books behind on my Goodreads goal. I think my favorite for the month was Airman by Eoin Colfer – and we had a fun family book club after everyone finished it.
6 – Projects completed.
8 – Ladies dining for our girls night out. I even talked them into going to Frost Gelato afterwards.
11 – Days logging the food I ate. I need to get back in that habit this month.
24 – Hard boiled eggs to dye, although one of my kiddos opted to leave one white.
28 – Countries visited Easy As PIE (at least people from 28 countries).
46 – States represented as Easy As PIE visitors. Apparently I’m not very popular in Montana.
812 – Words added to my book. I am going to finish it this year! (unless I keep getting distracted)
1228 – Words added to my short story. I actually finished the rough draft and read the first couple of pages to my critique group. Now to decide on where to focus my attention, finishing my book or editing my story? Actually I just need to focus on writing 
1261 – Page views. Thank you for visiting!
March’s Top Posts
- Book Theme Party Decorations
- Family Home Evening: Joseph Smith’s First Vision Revisited
- Native American Blue & Gold
- Sweet Shop & Nerf Top Shot Invitations
- Family Home Evening: Joseph Smith’s First Vision
What goals did you meet or miss for March?
Posted in Books, Celebrations, Education, Exercise, family, Womanhood, Writing
Tagged books, family time, Girl time, March, month in review, weight loss, writing
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